ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,791, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to EVERPURE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Coordinating storage operations between storage nodes of a storage system" was invented by Hari Kannan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ying Gao (San Jose, Calif.), Boris Feigin (San Francisco) and Robert Lee (Pebble Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more operations to be performed by a storage system are identified by a first storage node having a processing device and one or more authorities that determine types of erasure coding applied to data stored in the storage system. One or more instructions are transmitted to a second storage node to perfor...